Sound plays an important role for many animals, helping them navigate and hunt. Echolocation is the ability of animals like ...

All eight kinds of bats found in New Hampshire are designated species of conservation concern. Recording them is one way to identify them, part of an effort to track and monitor at-risk species. At ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonie Baier, Naturalis Biodiversity Center (THE CONVERSATION) Deep into the ...

The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air. On summer evenings, in around a minute, some 2,000 greater ...

Aya Goldshtein, Omer Mazar, and Yossi Yovel have spent many evenings standing outside bat caves. Even so, seeing thousands of bats erupting out of a cave and flapping into the night, sometimes in ...